CMS Peripherals Announces Strategic Agreement With Toshiba; The World's Leading Manufacturer of Portable Computers to Brand CMS Solutions as Noteworthy.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000

CMS Peripherals(R), the industry's leading provider of cost-effective and reliable mass-storage solutions for portable computers, today announced its entire line of Automatic Backup Systems (ABS)(TM), Easy-Plug Easy-Go(TM) notebook hard-drive upgrades, and EasyBundle(TM) notebook hard-drive upgrade and data-transfer kits have been added to the list of Noteworthy(TM) products from Toshiba America Information Systems (TAIS), Computer Systems Group (CSG).

Noteworthy-branded compatible products include solutions from third-party manufacturers that have been thoroughly tested, approved and recommended by Toshiba to ensure a dependable selection of products for their customers. This arrangement makes mobile computing more accessible and more enjoyable by meeting the notebook user's three key needs: simplified backup and recovery, expanded notebook storage capacity and file sharing.

"By working with industry leader Toshiba, we can help create solutions for mobile professionals by providing additional convenient, economical tools for expanding notebook storage capacities, recovering, backing up and sharing time-sensitive files," said Ken Burke, president of CMS Peripherals. "And it's a privilege for CMS to receive Toshiba's approval and to be recognized as Noteworthy," Burke continued.

"Valued partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers, such as CMS Peripherals, ensures a dependable selection of innovative products for our customers," said John Madigan, vice president, systems and solutions marketing, TAIS, CSG. "We are pleased to join with CMS in providing a quality line of storage and automatic backup solutions to our customers."

Under the agreement, the following CMS product lines will be listed as Noteworthy:

-- CMS-Noteworthy Automatic Backup System (ABS) provides mobile

users with the ability to back up their data while on the road

and be able to share data with the desktop computer. Ranging

from 4.3GB to 18.0GB, ABS solutions include an `automatic

launcher' and CMS' exclusive software enabling users to backup

their notebook computers effortlessly. After the initial

backup, the ABS intelligently backs up only modified files

saving mobile users valuable time and battery power.

-- CMS-Noteworthy EasyBundle notebook hard drive upgrade and data

transfer kit in one, provides users with as much as 25GB of

additional data storage in one complete package. EasyBundle

includes a CMS Easy-Plug Easy Go hard drive, drive image

software, a PCMCIA card and cable connection and ESD and

shock-preventive hardware making the task of transferring the

operating system, applications and files fast, easy and safe.

-- CMS-Noteworthy Easy-Plug Easy-Go notebook hard drive upgrades

can boost a user's notebook capacity to over ten times its

original. The rugged design of these 6GB, 12GB, 18GB and 25GB

solutions are able to withstand tough notebook use without

sacrificing high performance and fast access to valuable

files.

Availability

The entire Noteworthy line of Easy Bundle, Easy-Plug Easy-Go (EPEG) and Automatic Backup Solutions (ABS) will be available from Toshiba through major distribution, corporate resellers, mail order and direct from CMS's website at www.cmsproducts.com.

About CMS Products

With more than three million CMS storage solutions installed in over 90 countries, the complete line of CMS mass storage products includes backup products for notebooks, notebook hard drive upgrades and data transfer kits as well as high capacity desktop hard drives. For more information, contact CMS Peripherals, Inc., 3095 Redhill Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone] or visit CMS' website at www.cmsproducts.com.

About Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.

Toshiba continues to be the world's leading vendor for portable computers with 17.6 percent market share worldwide in Q3 '99, according to International Data Corp. The company offers portable, desktop and server computing solutions for business customers under the Toshiba brand name. For more information, call 1-800-TOSHIBA or visit the company's Web site at www.computers.toshiba.com. Dealer referrals and brochures are located at www.buy.toshiba.com.

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., with annual sales of approximately $2.5 billion, Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. is comprised of six divisions, organized into two business groups, which manufacture, market and service a wide range of business and information-oriented products in the United States and Latin America. Products include portable and desktop computers and PC servers; voice-mail systems; digital business telephone systems; interactive voice-response systems; network systems and digital cameras. TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America Inc., a subsidiary of the $42 billion Toshiba Corp., the seventh-largest computer and electronics company and the world's 26th largest industrial corporation in terms of sales. Toshiba Corp. is a world leader in high-technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide.

CMS Peripherals, Inc. is a registered trademark. Automatic Backup System (ABS) is a trademark of CMS. Any other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Noteworthy is a trademark of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.